3. Borrowings - consonant clusters, vowel epenthesis and more3.1. Introduction 3.2. Loanword phonology - theoretical preliminaries and anti-theoretical hurdles 3.3. Japanese borrowings from English and Dutch 3.3.1. The sound system of Japanese 3.3.2. The Japanese lexicon - strata and constraints 3.3.3. Consonant clusters from the West - epenthetic vowels in Japanese 3.3.4. Inter-onset domains preserved - partial geminates 3.3.5. New inter-onset domains - gemination 3.3.6. The Japanese lexicon - strata and constraints revisited 3.3.7. Complexity Scales and Licensing in Japanese phonology 3.4. Hawaiian borrowings from English 3.4.1. The sound system of Hawaiian (the vernacular and the replacements) 3.4.2. Word adaptation in Hawaiian 3.5. Chapter summary

4. The stability of syllable structure - the skeleton-melody interface4.1. Introduction 4.2. Syllable structure now and in the recent history of GP 4.2.1. Lowenstamm (2003) and muta cum liquida 4.2.2. Scheer and Ségéral (2005) and Gallo-Romance 4.2.3. Duanmu (2008) and the CVX approach 4.2.4. Ambiguous interpretations of surface forms - a summary 4.3. Polish consonant clusters in selected analyses 4.3.1. Consonant clusters, word-medial empty nuclei and possible licensing mechanisms 4.3.2. Consonant clusters - a new interpretation 4.3.2.1. Can sonorants branch in Polish? 4.3.2.2. Are there diphthongs in Polish? 4.3.2.3. Nasal vowels, glides or diphthongs? 4.3.2.4. Another suffix with [s] and other words 4.4. Word-final clusters in German 4.4.1. Bloch-Trojnar (2002) and new affricates in German 4.4.2. A new analysis of word-final consonant groups in German 4.5. Word-final clusters in Norwegian 4.6. English Super Heavy Rhymes and combinations of three consonants revisited 4.7. Chapter summary